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# Skandapurana 16.227

Skandapurāṇa 16.227

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.227.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.227.1)

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..  
tato gacchenmahādevi balabhadrapratiṣṭhitam ..  
liṃgaṃ mahāpāpaharaṃ gātrotsargāttaduttare .. 1 ..

> Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga consecrated by Balabhadra, / which removes great sins, to the north of Gātrotsarga.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.227.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.227.2)

mahāliṃgaṃ mahādevi mahāsiddhi phalapradam ..  
balabhadreṇa vidhinā sthāpitaṃ pāpaśuddhaye .. 2 ..

> It is a great liṅga, O great goddess, which bestows the fruit of great perfections, / installed by Balabhadra according to ritual injunction for purification from sin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.227.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.227.3)

yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā gandhapuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt ..  
tṛtīyārevatīyoge sa yogeśapadaṃ labhet .. 3 ..

> Whoever worships it with devotion, successively with perfumes, flowers, and the like, / during the conjunction of the third lunar day and Revatī, attains the rank of the lord of yoga.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.227.227](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.227.227)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye balabhadreśvaramāhātmya varṇanaṃnāma saptaviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 227 ..

> Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-seventh chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Balabhadreśvara', in the first \[part\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh \[section\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.227.1) — English, machine translation

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